Academic Articles & Research Papers

Health and Medical Informatics Education

Health and medical informatics education has meanwhile gained considerable importance for medicine and for health care. Specialized programs in health/medical informatics have therefore been established within the last decades. This special...

Regenstrief medical informatics

Training residents in medical informatics.

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: A number of medical educators have called for an increased emphasis on medical informatics training, but few family practice residency programs have provided more than cursory teaching efforts in this area. This p...

Medical informatics Europe '97

This publication contains the proceedings of MIE '97, the main informatics and telematics event, where users meet the industry and decision makers are presented with the available informatics and telematics solutions to challenges in medici...

Are Medical Informatics and Nursing Informatics Distinct Disciplines?: The 1999 ACMI Debate

The 1999 debate of the American College of Medical Informatics focused on the proposition that medical informatics and nursing informatics are distinctive disciplines that require their own core curricula, training programs, and professiona...

American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) betaAHIC PDF

The document titled "American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) betaAHIC PDF" is a comprehensive resource that outlines essential insights and developments in the field of medical informatics as presented by the American Medical Inform...

Ontology Technology in Medical Informatics

The main purpose of this paper is to overview the current issues in the area of medical ontology. Ontology technology in Medical Informatics is evolved from the three different research areas: namely, web application for the Semantic Web, K...

Medical Informatics, Artefacts or Science?

Successful and productive medical informatics research is evidently a combination of luck, creative art, and science, but some researchers focus too much on building computer artefacts and writing anecdotal reports of their experience. They...

Медицинская информатика [Medical Informatics]

A 2009 Russian-language textbook by Boris A. Kobrinsky and Tatyana V. Zarubina on medical informatics. The book covers the principles and methods of information technology in medicine, including medical information systems, biomedical data ...

Workshop on medical informatics and engineering

MI&E 2009 will bring researchers, developers, practitoners, and users to present their latest research, results, and ideas in all areas of medical informatics, engineering and artificial intelligence in medicine and health care....

Actual problems in medical informatics.

Medical informatics has been the first science that connects all traditional medical disciplines, thanking to common information needs and requirements of these disciplines. Its goal is incorporating of information technology into medical p...

A history of medical informatics in the United States, 1950 to 1990

A Virtual Reading Center Model Using Crowdsourcing to Grade Photographs for Trachoma: Validation Study

BackgroundAs trachoma is eliminated, skilled field graders become less adept at correctly identifying active disease (trachomatous inflammation—follicular [TF]). Deciding if trachoma has been eliminated from a district or if treatment strat...

Deep learning-based multimodal data fusion in bone tumor management: Advances in clinical decision support

Bone tumors (BTs)—including osteosarcoma, Ewing sarcoma, and chondrosarcoma—are rare but biologically complex malignancies characterized by pronounced heterogeneity in anatomical location, histological subtype, and molecular alterations. Re...

Examining the characteristic features of lipedema and the usefulness of BMI and WHtR in clinical evaluation

Abstract Background Lipedema is an adipose tissue disorder involving mostly women. One of the most characteristic lipedema symptoms is painful accumulation of adipose tissue in lower and upper extremities leading to disproportion. Due to th...

Medical and Health-Related Misinformation on Social Media: Bibliometric Study of the Scientific Literature

BackgroundSocial media has been extensively used for the communication of health-related information and consecutively for the potential spread of medical misinformation. Conventional systematic reviews have been published on this topic to ...

Isolation, characterisation and antibiotic susceptibility of staphylococcal isolates with special reference to methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus from the anterior nares of healthcare workers in A tertiary healthcare centre

Background: Staphylococcus aureus (S. aureus) and its resistant form methicillinresistant S. aureus (MRSA) is one of the most common nosocomial pathogens causing a wide range of infections in humans. The anterior nares are the main ecologic...

Methodology for the Positive Voices 2022 Survey of People With HIV Accessing Care in England, Wales, and Scotland: Cross-Sectional Questionnaire Study

BackgroundDue to advances in treatment, HIV is now a chronic condition with near-normal life expectancy. However, people with HIV continue to have a higher burden of mental and physical health conditions and are impacted by wider socioecono...

The thalamus and its subregions – a gateway to obsessive-compulsive disorder

Introduction Higher thalamic volume has been found in children with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and children with clinical-level symptoms within the general population (Boedhoe et al. 2017, Weeland et al. 2021a). Functionally distin...

Evaluation of pragmatic oxygenation measurement as a proxy for Covid-19 severity

Abstract Choosing optimal outcome measures maximizes statistical power, accelerates discovery and improves reliability in early-phase trials. We devised and evaluated a modification to a pragmatic measure of oxygenation function, the $$S/F$...